Bag of Rice Project #370 -A visit to the Kalu family


Learn how you can be apart of helping people who are in need with our A Thrifty Mom Bag of Rice Campaign
. In 2016 we started helping a young man named Ikechukwu from Nigeria. Summer of 2019 we were able to visit his family in Aba, Nigeria. While there we saw widespread poverty and lack of basic needs. We would like to invite you to help meet one of those basic needs, by providing
Nigerian families with rice. This gift will feed a large family for a few months, or a single person a year. It also reminds them they are loved, and brings most of them to tears… as a full bag of rice is one of the most generous gifts they will ever receive. You can also read about other families we have been able to bless here.

The Following story is about the Kalu family, their bag of rice was donated thanks to Darby and Crystal Ashby this is the 370th bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.

We met this wonderful family in Aba, Nigeria. They were recommended to us by their church leader who also accompanied us to identify the family. They live in a one room apartment with some other tenants. Sharing basic amenities like bathroom. Mrs Kalu is a widow and she has 6 children. She is staying with two of her daughters because she can no longer take care of her other kids so they’re living with other relatives. For water they fetch from a nearby borehole with buckets and then they store it for use.

Because of where the Kalus are staying, they don’t have much space and use a small part of their house as a kitchen. They use a small gas cylinder which has been modified for home use. Mrs Kalu is a trader and she sells food provisions in a local market around her house.

The Kalu’s were so happy to meet and welcome us. Mrs Kalu has known me since I was small and was especially delighted to meet me again. They were very grateful to those who donated this bag of Rice to them and expressed their desire that God will bless them exceedingly. Mrs Kalu said that they did not have plans for Christmas and that this gift was a direct answer to her prayers.

Learn how you can be apart of helping people who are in need with our A Thrifty Mom Bag of Rice Campaign. You can also read about other families we have been able to bless here.